Urban Agriculture as Activism: Common Practices and Discourses in Different Contexts

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10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_14How to use a DOI?

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Urban Agriculture; Activism; Public Space

Abstract

The present paper addresses the relationship between urban agriculture, activism and the right to the city in three different contexts: São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France), and Lausanne (Switzerland). Largely based on qualitative research performed between 2016 and 2022 in the three aforementioned cities, relying on a critical approach and field work (participant and non-participant observation), the study has found a convergence between discourse and practice when it comes to intraurban horticulture, with emphasis on issues such as citizen’s (re)appropriation of public spaces, strengthening of social bonds, promotion of urban biodiversity, and a new political and cultural contribution to the city-nature relationship. Although each of those cities’ institutions respond to urban horticulture in a different manner, with local governments playing a more or less active role in the everyday life of community gardens, such gardens become public space activity hubs of collective experience and prove to be, both materially and symbolically, in all three contexts, a criticism to contemporary cities and an alternative to urban life.

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AU  - Gustavo Nagib
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/08/26
TI  - Urban Agriculture as Activism: Common Practices and Discourses in Different Contexts
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration (NATiURB 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 171
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SN  - 2667-128X
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